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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/page-writeback.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/page-writeback.c | 246 |
1 files changed, 191 insertions, 55 deletions
diff --git a/mm/page-writeback.c b/mm/page-writeback.c index 5cdd4f2b0c9..363ba7082ef 100644 --- a/mm/page-writeback.c +++ b/mm/page-writeback.c @@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ #define MAX_PAUSE max(HZ/5, 1) /* + * Try to keep balance_dirty_pages() call intervals higher than this many pages + * by raising pause time to max_pause when falls below it. + */ +#define DIRTY_POLL_THRESH (128 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10)) + +/* * Estimate write bandwidth at 200ms intervals. */ #define BANDWIDTH_INTERVAL max(HZ/5, 1) @@ -898,6 +904,11 @@ static void bdi_update_dirty_ratelimit(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, */ balanced_dirty_ratelimit = div_u64((u64)task_ratelimit * write_bw, dirty_rate | 1); + /* + * balanced_dirty_ratelimit ~= (write_bw / N) <= write_bw + */ + if (unlikely(balanced_dirty_ratelimit > write_bw)) + balanced_dirty_ratelimit = write_bw; /* * We could safely do this and return immediately: @@ -1044,40 +1055,98 @@ static unsigned long dirty_poll_interval(unsigned long dirty, return 1; } -static unsigned long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, - unsigned long bdi_dirty) +static long bdi_max_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, + unsigned long bdi_dirty) +{ + long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth; + long t; + + /* + * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long + * time, a small pool of dirty/writeback pages may go empty and disk go + * idle. + * + * 8 serves as the safety ratio. + */ + t = bdi_dirty / (1 + bw / roundup_pow_of_two(1 + HZ / 8)); + t++; + + return min_t(long, t, MAX_PAUSE); +} + +static long bdi_min_pause(struct backing_dev_info *bdi, + long max_pause, + unsigned long task_ratelimit, + unsigned long dirty_ratelimit, + int *nr_dirtied_pause) { - unsigned long bw = bdi->avg_write_bandwidth; - unsigned long hi = ilog2(bw); - unsigned long lo = ilog2(bdi->dirty_ratelimit); - unsigned long t; + long hi = ilog2(bdi->avg_write_bandwidth); + long lo = ilog2(bdi->dirty_ratelimit); + long t; /* target pause */ + long pause; /* estimated next pause */ + int pages; /* target nr_dirtied_pause */ - /* target for 20ms max pause on 1-dd case */ - t = HZ / 50; + /* target for 10ms pause on 1-dd case */ + t = max(1, HZ / 100); /* * Scale up pause time for concurrent dirtiers in order to reduce CPU * overheads. * - * (N * 20ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks. + * (N * 10ms) on 2^N concurrent tasks. */ if (hi > lo) - t += (hi - lo) * (20 * HZ) / 1024; + t += (hi - lo) * (10 * HZ) / 1024; /* - * Limit pause time for small memory systems. If sleeping for too long - * time, a small pool of dirty/writeback pages may go empty and disk go - * idle. + * This is a bit convoluted. We try to base the next nr_dirtied_pause + * on the much more stable dirty_ratelimit. However the next pause time + * will be computed based on task_ratelimit and the two rate limits may + * depart considerably at some time. Especially if task_ratelimit goes + * below dirty_ratelimit/2 and the target pause is max_pause, the next + * pause time will be max_pause*2 _trimmed down_ to max_pause. As a + * result task_ratelimit won't be executed faithfully, which could + * eventually bring down dirty_ratelimit. * - * 8 serves as the safety ratio. + * We apply two rules to fix it up: + * 1) try to estimate the next pause time and if necessary, use a lower + * nr_dirtied_pause so as not to exceed max_pause. When this happens, + * nr_dirtied_pause will be "dancing" with task_ratelimit. + * 2) limit the target pause time to max_pause/2, so that the normal + * small fluctuations of task_ratelimit won't trigger rule (1) and + * nr_dirtied_pause will remain as stable as dirty_ratelimit. */ - t = min(t, bdi_dirty * HZ / (8 * bw + 1)); + t = min(t, 1 + max_pause / 2); + pages = dirty_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ); /* - * The pause time will be settled within range (max_pause/4, max_pause). - * Apply a minimal value of 4 to get a non-zero max_pause/4. + * Tiny nr_dirtied_pause is found to hurt I/O performance in the test + * case fio-mmap-randwrite-64k, which does 16*{sync read, async write}. + * When the 16 consecutive reads are often interrupted by some dirty + * throttling pause during the async writes, cfq will go into idles + * (deadline is fine). So push nr_dirtied_pause as high as possible + * until reaches DIRTY_POLL_THRESH=32 pages. */ - return clamp_val(t, 4, MAX_PAUSE); + if (pages < DIRTY_POLL_THRESH) { + t = max_pause; + pages = dirty_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ); + if (pages > DIRTY_POLL_THRESH) { + pages = DIRTY_POLL_THRESH; + t = HZ * DIRTY_POLL_THRESH / dirty_ratelimit; + } + } + + pause = HZ * pages / (task_ratelimit + 1); + if (pause > max_pause) { + t = max_pause; + pages = task_ratelimit * t / roundup_pow_of_two(HZ); + } + + *nr_dirtied_pause = pages; + /* + * The minimal pause time will normally be half the target pause time. + */ + return pages >= DIRTY_POLL_THRESH ? 1 + t / 2 : t; } /* @@ -1098,16 +1167,21 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, unsigned long background_thresh; unsigned long dirty_thresh; unsigned long bdi_thresh; - long pause = 0; - long uninitialized_var(max_pause); + long period; + long pause; + long max_pause; + long min_pause; + int nr_dirtied_pause; bool dirty_exceeded = false; unsigned long task_ratelimit; - unsigned long uninitialized_var(dirty_ratelimit); + unsigned long dirty_ratelimit; unsigned long pos_ratio; struct backing_dev_info *bdi = mapping->backing_dev_info; unsigned long start_time = jiffies; for (;;) { + unsigned long now = jiffies; + /* * Unstable writes are a feature of certain networked * filesystems (i.e. NFS) in which data may have been @@ -1127,8 +1201,13 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, */ freerun = dirty_freerun_ceiling(dirty_thresh, background_thresh); - if (nr_dirty <= freerun) + if (nr_dirty <= freerun) { + current->dirty_paused_when = now; + current->nr_dirtied = 0; + current->nr_dirtied_pause = + dirty_poll_interval(nr_dirty, dirty_thresh); break; + } if (unlikely(!writeback_in_progress(bdi))) bdi_start_background_writeback(bdi); @@ -1168,7 +1247,7 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, bdi_stat(bdi, BDI_WRITEBACK); } - dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) || + dirty_exceeded = (bdi_dirty > bdi_thresh) && (nr_dirty > dirty_thresh); if (dirty_exceeded && !bdi->dirty_exceeded) bdi->dirty_exceeded = 1; @@ -1177,20 +1256,34 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, nr_dirty, bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty, start_time); - max_pause = bdi_max_pause(bdi, bdi_dirty); - dirty_ratelimit = bdi->dirty_ratelimit; pos_ratio = bdi_position_ratio(bdi, dirty_thresh, background_thresh, nr_dirty, bdi_thresh, bdi_dirty); task_ratelimit = ((u64)dirty_ratelimit * pos_ratio) >> RATELIMIT_CALC_SHIFT; + max_pause = bdi_max_pause(bdi, bdi_dirty); + min_pause = bdi_min_pause(bdi, max_pause, + task_ratelimit, dirty_ratelimit, + &nr_dirtied_pause); + if (unlikely(task_ratelimit == 0)) { + period = max_pause; pause = max_pause; goto pause; } - pause = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit; - if (unlikely(pause <= 0)) { + period = HZ * pages_dirtied / task_ratelimit; + pause = period; + if (current->dirty_paused_when) + pause -= now - current->dirty_paused_when; + /* + * For less than 1s think time (ext3/4 may block the dirtier + * for up to 800ms from time to time on 1-HDD; so does xfs, + * however at much less frequency), try to compensate it in + * future periods by updating the virtual time; otherwise just + * do a reset, as it may be a light dirtier. + */ + if (pause < min_pause) { trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi, dirty_thresh, background_thresh, @@ -1200,12 +1293,24 @@ static void balance_dirty_pages(struct address_space *mapping, dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit, pages_dirtied, - pause, + period, + min(pause, 0L), start_time); - pause = 1; /* avoid resetting nr_dirtied_pause below */ + if (pause < -HZ) { + current->dirty_paused_when = now; + current->nr_dirtied = 0; + } else if (period) { + current->dirty_paused_when += period; + current->nr_dirtied = 0; + } else if (current->nr_dirtied_pause <= pages_dirtied) + current->nr_dirtied_pause += pages_dirtied; break; } - pause = min(pause, max_pause); + if (unlikely(pause > max_pause)) { + /* for occasional dropped task_ratelimit */ + now += min(pause - max_pause, max_pause); + pause = max_pause; + } pause: trace_balance_dirty_pages(bdi, @@ -1217,11 +1322,16 @@ pause: dirty_ratelimit, task_ratelimit, pages_dirtied, + period, pause, start_time); __set_current_state(TASK_KILLABLE); io_schedule_timeout(pause); + current->dirty_paused_when = now + pause; + current->nr_dirtied = 0; + current->nr_dirtied_pause = nr_dirtied_pause; + /* * This is typically equal to (nr_dirty < dirty_thresh) and can * also keep "1000+ dd on a slow USB stick" under control. @@ -1249,23 +1359,6 @@ pause: if (!dirty_exceeded && bdi->dirty_exceeded) bdi->dirty_exceeded = 0; - current->nr_dirtied = 0; - if (pause == 0) { /* in freerun area */ - current->nr_dirtied_pause = - dirty_poll_interval(nr_dirty, dirty_thresh); - } else if (pause <= max_pause / 4 && - pages_dirtied >= current->nr_dirtied_pause) { - current->nr_dirtied_pause = clamp_val( - dirty_ratelimit * (max_pause / 2) / HZ, - pages_dirtied + pages_dirtied / 8, - pages_dirtied * 4); - } else if (pause >= max_pause) { - current->nr_dirtied_pause = 1 | clamp_val( - dirty_ratelimit * (max_pause / 2) / HZ, - pages_dirtied / 4, - pages_dirtied - pages_dirtied / 8); - } - if (writeback_in_progress(bdi)) return; @@ -1296,6 +1389,22 @@ void set_page_dirty_balance(struct page *page, int page_mkwrite) static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, bdp_ratelimits); +/* + * Normal tasks are throttled by + * loop { + * dirty tsk->nr_dirtied_pause pages; + * take a snap in balance_dirty_pages(); + * } + * However there is a worst case. If every task exit immediately when dirtied + * (tsk->nr_dirtied_pause - 1) pages, balance_dirty_pages() will never be + * called to throttle the page dirties. The solution is to save the not yet + * throttled page dirties in dirty_throttle_leaks on task exit and charge them + * randomly into the running tasks. This works well for the above worst case, + * as the new task will pick up and accumulate the old task's leaked dirty + * count and eventually get throttled. + */ +DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, dirty_throttle_leaks) = 0; + /** * balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr - balance dirty memory state * @mapping: address_space which was dirtied @@ -1324,8 +1433,6 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping, if (bdi->dirty_exceeded) ratelimit = min(ratelimit, 32 >> (PAGE_SHIFT - 10)); - current->nr_dirtied += nr_pages_dirtied; - preempt_disable(); /* * This prevents one CPU to accumulate too many dirtied pages without @@ -1336,12 +1443,20 @@ void balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr(struct address_space *mapping, p = &__get_cpu_var(bdp_ratelimits); if (unlikely(current->nr_dirtied >= ratelimit)) *p = 0; - else { - *p += nr_pages_dirtied; - if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit_pages)) { - *p = 0; - ratelimit = 0; - } + else if (unlikely(*p >= ratelimit_pages)) { + *p = 0; + ratelimit = 0; + } + /* + * Pick up the dirtied pages by the exited tasks. This avoids lots of + * short-lived tasks (eg. gcc invocations in a kernel build) escaping + * the dirty throttling and livelock other long-run dirtiers. + */ + p = &__get_cpu_var(dirty_throttle_leaks); + if (*p > 0 && current->nr_dirtied < ratelimit) { + nr_pages_dirtied = min(*p, ratelimit - current->nr_dirtied); + *p -= nr_pages_dirtied; + current->nr_dirtied += nr_pages_dirtied; } preempt_enable(); @@ -1823,6 +1938,8 @@ void account_page_dirtied(struct page *page, struct address_space *mapping) __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_RECLAIMABLE); __inc_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED); task_io_account_write(PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); + current->nr_dirtied++; + this_cpu_inc(bdp_ratelimits); } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_dirtied); @@ -1883,6 +2000,24 @@ int __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(struct page *page) EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers); /* + * Call this whenever redirtying a page, to de-account the dirty counters + * (NR_DIRTIED, BDI_DIRTIED, tsk->nr_dirtied), so that they match the written + * counters (NR_WRITTEN, BDI_WRITTEN) in long term. The mismatches will lead to + * systematic errors in balanced_dirty_ratelimit and the dirty pages position + * control. + */ +void account_page_redirty(struct page *page) +{ + struct address_space *mapping = page->mapping; + if (mapping && mapping_cap_account_dirty(mapping)) { + current->nr_dirtied--; + dec_zone_page_state(page, NR_DIRTIED); + dec_bdi_stat(mapping->backing_dev_info, BDI_DIRTIED); + } +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(account_page_redirty); + +/* * When a writepage implementation decides that it doesn't want to write this * page for some reason, it should redirty the locked page via * redirty_page_for_writepage() and it should then unlock the page and return 0 @@ -1890,6 +2025,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__set_page_dirty_nobuffers); int redirty_page_for_writepage(struct writeback_control *wbc, struct page *page) { wbc->pages_skipped++; + account_page_redirty(page); return __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(redirty_page_for_writepage); |